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Pope's Encyclical:The Joy of the Gospel

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DG - Since August 3, 2013, this website has saved many dozens of Africans from going to prison in HK.
See "Drugs", below

V2Catholic is now on Facebook.
God bless kind FB editor in Melbourne

Imitating Pope Francis Franc

Q&A: South China Sea dispute

Beijing's dangerous arrogance
in the South China Sea
Beijing's superiority complex and selective reading of Southeast Asian history have become the toxic brew fuelling tensions in the South China Sea

Vietnam Church asked to protect Taiwanese citizens

The trust deficit is international

Tuesday May 20

Today's Bible Blog
a 4-course menu:
- who or what was Dagon?
- thank God for special places of prayer
- genuine love of God means reconciliation with others
- imitating Jesus' love means mixing with the poor

God bless the kind readers who check this Bible Blog each day. May this Bible Blog give us extra hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily lives

	Ron W. Nikkel (U.S.A.) Freedom Rules Security and freedom are a tender balance, and sometimes in a tension. Some people choose security over freedom – for a time because security is the god who will protect them. At other times some people choose freedom over security because security has become a tyrannical god of oppression and control	Vatican II & Renewal (1) 16 Documents of Vatican II A Call to Action Assn Catholic Priests Ireland Bp Pat Power Bp Geoff Robinson Bruce Duncan Catalyst for Renewal Catholica Catholics for Ministry Catholics for Renewal STANDUP4VATICAN2 The Swag VII - Voice of the Church We Are Church Excellent articles on Mission Hugh McMahon SSC

Speaking of Freedom ....	Powerful article re slavery - more than 11 million slaves were transported from Africa (15th-19th centuries)

Our website's Wednesday UK blogger Chris McDonnell has a strong comment at this article: Bishop Kräutler: Pope Francis Asks for Suggestions to Change Mandatory Celibacy

Pope Francis Full text Summary	169. In a culture paradoxically suffering from anonymity and at the same time obsessed with the details of other people’s lives, shamelessly given over to morbid curiosity, the Church must look more closely and sympathetically at others whenever necessary. In our world, ordained ministers and other pastoral workers can make present the fragrance of Christ’s closeness and his personal gaze. The Church will have to initiate everyone – priests, religious and laity – into this “art of accompaniment” which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other. The pace of this accompaniment must be steady and reassuring, reflecting our closeness and our compassionate gaze which also heals, liberates and encourages growth in the Christian life.

	If you get caught for a crime you will have to go to court where the judge may not show you any quarter

	This website's Tanzania File (stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's South America file (stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's Hong Kong file (encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)


John W mini-Blog	Today I'm due to be in court, supporting an inmate whose home (and that of his father, also an inmate) is a mattress under a freeway. More about this tomorrow ... My weekly article in today's Ming Pao newspaper. Topic: Wet weather ....and HK's slippery surfaces (on Ming Pao website - click "Australian in HK")

Sun: Africa Mon: Europe & Russia Tues: South Asia Wed: East Asia Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid: South America Sat: Central & North America Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week: Jesus, today, Tuesday, please bless the people of South Asia On this 20th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Sichuan Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Most interesting Tablet reflection on the role of a Catholic school

Due to population shifts, a Catholic primary school in Blackburn has found itself with 99 per cent of pupils who are Muslim

But in India, say, there are many Catholic-run schools and colleges, often the best in the area, where the great majority are Muslim or Hindu. Parents obviously do not fear their children will be “converted”. They greatly prize whatever it is the Catholic ethos can bring, which may include, apart from the excellence of the education, resistance to the increasing sexual free-for-all that they fear is pervading Indian society.

a Catholic school ought to be regarded as a gift to the local community, not as a walled-off place of privilege for a minority

Monday May 19

Today's Bible Blog
a 4-course menu:
- a father who didn't/couldn't stop his sons from stealing?
- a problem in most countries: corruption
- God is not just love. God is Unconditional Love
- can I bear more fruit?

God bless the kind readers who check this Bible Blog each day. May this Bible Blog give us extra hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily lives

Darlene Starrs (Canada)	The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform? What? Who says? Unless, Pope Francis addresses the injustices that have occurred within the Church, and listens to the various reform voices, nothing will really change!	This website's kind bloggers (past and present) with archives of articles: Bakhita Hazel C Daniel Daring Inigo Joachim Brian Lewis Judith Lynch Martin Mallon Chris McDonnell Bill Mulcahy Des O'Donnell Darlene Starrs TASMAD David Timbs Peter Wilkinson Harry Winter John Wotherspoon This website tries to stop "tanks" (war, global warming, exploitation of the poor, globalisation of indifference, liturgical "reform of the reform" & other anti-Vatican II forces etc) Weekly Archive of main page menus Previous archives 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 John W: Previous Daily Blogs

	Nigerian students defiant in city that defied Boko Haram

	Factories forced to close as Vietnamese rage mounts over China oil rig

	Cardinal Francis George O.M.I braves poor health to ordain new priests

Generation Y/Z	Research says young people today are more narcissistic than ever

From a Hong Kong Chinese reader in Australia	"Apparently, this video has become a hit in HK. It started off with a mainland lady and her son allegedly eating on the HK MTR carriage...then not long after, a HK lady started arguing with her, before other HKers gang up on the mainland lady (and her young son). http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5l50Qm02ALo Very disturbing. It's almost xenophobic. Almost like the anti-Middle East sentiment back in 2001"


	Interactive Bible Quiz - Deuteronomy Based on the actual words of the Bible. How many times can you get 3/3 ?!

Pope Francis Full text Summary	168. As for the moral component of catechesis, which promotes growth in fidelity to the Gospel way of life, it is helpful to stress again and again the attractiveness and the ideal of a life of wisdom, self-fulfilment and enrichment. In the light of that positive message, our rejection of the evils which endanger that life can be better understood. Rather than experts in dire predictions, dour judges bent on rooting out every threat and deviation, we should appear as joyful messengers of challenging proposals, guardians of the goodness and beauty which shine forth in a life of fidelity to the Gospel.

	Yesterday at a detention centre, I asked three recently-arrived drug mules where they got their plane from (...I've been noticing how new Tanzanian mules are using airports in other African countries ...a good sign that security at Tanzania's airports is tightening up). The first one said "Nairobi". The second "Zanzibar". The third, a very simple person not at all trying to be smart but just quite honest said "at the airport"

	This website's Tanzania File (stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's South America file (stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's Hong Kong file (encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)


John W mini-Blog	On this day in 1987 I made my first ever visit to Zhaoqing (where I was later to work for 7 years). An overnight stay costing Y3 (!). Arrived early afternoon. Rest of afternoon was a "Jericho" walk (c.f. Judges 6) around the inner city. God bless Zhaoqing!

Sun: Africa Mon: Europe & Russia Tues: South Asia Wed: East Asia Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid: South America Sat: Central & North America Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week: Jesus, today, Monday, please bless the people of Europe and Russia On this 19th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shanxi Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

God’s plan
Of salvation
Offers us
Divine life

For people living in the North
For people living in the East
For people living in the West
For people living in the South

this is GOOD NEWS !

May 18 Fifth Sunday of Easter

Readings of today's Mass

Reflection by Daniel Daring:

Jesus, the Way
A great theologian gave a lecture stating that the resurrection of Jesus was a myth and that those who claim to have a relationship with the “Risen Lord” are just deceiving themselves. Then an old black preacher stood up, reached into his brown bag lunch and pulled out an apple ....

Arizona church gives sanctuary to migrant facing deportation

Late New Orleans priest 'a godsend' during Hurricane Katrina

New Orleans priest shone light on others, never himself

Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit

Inspiring photos:

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Newness, harmony, mission

Engagements of Pope Francis

Zenit.org - reports from Rome

Many thanks for checking
this website each day

St Paul on Metro/Tube/MTR!

Little girl telling the story of Jonah
- brilliant!

George Monbiot:
Are We Bothered?
The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet

Irene Fernandez Migrant workers mourn a life long supporter

May 24 - 26

Pope shuns bulletproof vehicles for Middle East trip

Pope will take rabbi and Muslim leader with him to Holy Land

South Sudan at high risk of tearing itself apart

- By UK Minister for Africa

Respect for
human life

U.S. Abortion Clock

Eggsploitation (Preview of documentary)

79-year old nun gives ‘police formation’

Pope
Francis

Full text

Summary

167. Every form of catechesis would do well to attend to the “way of beauty” (via pulchritudinis). Proclaiming Christ means showing that to believe in and to follow him is not only something right and true, but also something beautiful, capable of filling life with new splendour and profound joy, even in the midst of difficulties. Every expression of true beauty can thus be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.

This has nothing to do with fostering an aesthetic relativism which would downplay the inseparable bond between truth, goodness and beauty, but rather a renewed esteem for beauty as a means of touching the human heart and enabling the truth and goodness of the Risen Christ to radiate within it.

If, as Saint Augustine says, we love only that which is beautiful, the incarnate Son, as the revelation of infinite beauty, is supremely lovable and draws us to himself with bonds of love.

So a formation in the via pulchritudinis ought to be part of our effort to pass on the faith. Each particular Church should encourage the use of the arts in evangelization, building on the treasures of the past but also drawing upon the wide variety of contemporary expressions so as to transmit the faith in a new “language of parables”.

We must be bold enough to discover new signs and new symbols, new flesh to embody and communicate the word, and different forms of beauty which are valued in different cultural settings, including those unconventional modes of beauty which may mean little to the evangelizers, yet prove particularly attractive for others.

From article by George Monbiot, above:
The bar chart puts me in mind of the famous quote perhaps mistakenly attributed to Gandhi. When asked by a journalist during a visit to Britain, “What do you think of Western civilization?”, he’s reputed to have replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”

New letter (in Swahili) from a Tanzanian inmate in a HK prison

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

John W mini-Blog

I can count at least six "good news" stories on today's menu.
That's better than yesterday when the menu had nearly all "bad news" stories.
In our troubled world, we need more "good news" stories
...especially THE Good News!

For HK readers: every Sunday night, AM 1044, "Brother" Bruce phones me for a little chat about prison ministry. Tonight will be at 10.30, not the usual 9.30

Sun: Africa           Mon: Europe & Russia          Tues: South Asia          Wed: East Asia
      Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific        Frid: South America           Sat: Central & North America
    Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday, please bless the people of Africa

On this 18th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shandong
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Elephants face extinction in 10 years if Beijing does not ban ivory trade

Elephant poaching reported at Kruger national park in South Africa

Hong Kong burns ivory stockpile

Yesterday in a HK detention centre, I met two poor men from Malawi (one of the poorest countries in the world, located south ofTanzania) tricked into bringing 35 kg of ivory to HK

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Saturday May 17

Today's Bible Blog
a 4-course menu:
- people can sense a genuine prophet/politician/parent/pastor
- one way of listening to the Lord's voice
- genuine love for God means practical concern for the poor
- inmates' song: Jesus, live in my heart

God bless the kind readers who check this Bible Blog each day. May this Bible Blog give us extra hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily lives

	Sudan court sentences pregnant Christian woman to death for 'leaving Islam'	The unjust treatment of Bishop Bill Morris Tribalism lives on, for better and for worse

	New York roommates find $40,000 in sofa and return cash to owner c.f. Cleaner who found $100,000 in toilet can keep $80,000 (Melbourne)

	Vietnam's fury at China's expansionism can be traced to a troubled history

	Revealed - The other side of Hotel Rwanda

	Blessed are the moneymakers Budget points to new sectarianism Council of priests expresses concern for asylum seekers

	The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

	Vatican official speaks out against drones

Pope Francis Full text Summary	166. Another aspect of catechesis which has developed in recent decades is mystagogic initiation.This basically has to do with two things: a progressive experience of formation involving the entire community and a renewed appreciation of the liturgical signs of Christian initiation. Many manuals and programmes have not yet taken sufficiently into account the need for a mystagogical renewal, one which would assume very different forms based on each educational community’s discernment. Catechesis is a proclamation of the word and is always centred on that word, yet it also demands a suitable environment and an attractive presentation, the use of eloquent symbols, insertion into a broader growth process and the integration of every dimension of the person within a communal journey of hearing and response.

	To go with current first readings of Bible Blog, above: Q: What is God's name? A: Samuel ("Samuel" means "Name of God")

	Australian warship seizes $123 million in heroin off Somali coast This website's Tanzania File (updated May 16 .... mules keep coming...) (stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's South America file (stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's Hong Kong file (encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)


John W mini-Blog	What a lot of bad news stories on today's menu! The only good news story is the one about the honest men who found money in sofa. At times like this, we need to re-double our dedication to Bible reading and prayer. They are the anchor to stop our boat from being swept away by so many negative currents in today's world

Sun: Africa Mon: Europe & Russia Tues: South Asia Wed: East Asia Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid: South America Sat: Central & North America Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week: Jesus, today, Saturday, please bless the people of Central & North America On this 17th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shaanxi Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Romero beatification
announcement
Sunday May 18

Friday May 16

Today's Bible Blog
a 4-course menu:
- first draft of Mary's "Magnificat"
- ancestral guilt?
- we are like caterpillars... becoming butterflies
- bring it on!

God bless the kind readers who check this Bible Blog each day. May this Bible Blog give us extra hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily lives

	Full Text of Pope Francis' Q&A With Seminarians in Rome - full of humor and good sense	Liturgy - New Translation 1998 ICEL Sacramentary Misguided Missal The new translation Ghastly process/result Ron Schmit: 1962 Mass a condemnation of Vatican II PrayTell ------------------------------------------ Spirituality Sacred Space Daily prayer online. Available in 19 languages Jackie Evancho - To Believe Pray-as-you-go.org Daily prayer with beautiful music Whole text of 1966 Jerusalem Bible Previous Smiles file

	Chaplains of the Militia: The tangled story of the Catholic church during Rwanda’s genocide

The folly that was World War One	'To show their contempt for death, some Sikhs had refused to hide in the trenches' c.f. Lest We Forget - George Monbiot

	Feminism In Faith - Sister Elizabeth Johnson's Challenge To The Vatican

	Hong Kong burns ivory stockpile

	Slashing welfare is a recipe for crime

	Toledo goes to China - can small cities go it alone on the global stage?

Pope Francis Full text Summary	165. We must not think that in catechesis the kerygma gives way to a supposedly more “solid” formation. Nothing is more solid, profound, secure, meaningful and wisdom-filled than that initial proclamation. All Christian formation consists of entering more deeply into the kerygma, which is reflected in and constantly illumines, the work of catechesis, thereby enabling us to understand more fully the significance of every subject which the latter treats. It is the message capable of responding to the desire for the infinite which abides in every human heart. The centrality of the kerygma calls for stressing those elements which are most needed today: it has to express God’s saving love which precedes any moral and religious obligation on our part; it should not impose the truth but appeal to freedom; it should be marked by joy, encouragement, liveliness and a harmonious balance which will not reduce preaching to a few doctrines which are at times more philosophical than evangelical. All this demands on the part of the evangelizer certain attitudes which foster openness to the message: approachability, readiness for dialogue, patience, a warmth and welcome which is non-judgmental.

	Getting a chaplain's prison pass in HK is a major feat ...takes six or more months of perseverance. Yesterday I continued a similar venture: to obtain a pass for an immigration detention centre which houses a lot of asylum seekers. In a phone call yesterday, when told I needed a letter from a bishop (even though I'm authorised by bishop to be a prison chaplain), I couldn't help saying "if you need a support letter from the Pope I can apply for one".

	About a month ago: a Tanzanian women was arrested at HK airport for being a drug mule. See file below for list of updates ....how can we stop this madness? This website's Tanzania File (stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's South America file (stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's Hong Kong file (encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)


John W mini-Blog	Yesterday at the hospital section of Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre, several inmates (none of them Christians) asked for prayers ....and I pass on their requests to dear readers of this website: * a man with cancer of the face and head * a man suffering from a stroke * a 72 year old inmate with a very sore back * a man with an infected bowel * a man with severe paralysis Doctor Jesus, please tsunami these men with your healing love!

Sun: Africa Mon: Europe & Russia Tues: South Asia Wed: East Asia Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid: South America Sat: Central & North America Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week: Jesus, today, Friday, please bless the people of South America On this 16th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Qinghai Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Yesterday as I remembered Saint Matthias on his feast day, I thought of how he surely must have been at the Last Supper ("with us from the beginning to now") and surely Jesus' mother and other women were there too - as in the painting by Piasecki.
c.f. the group mentioned in Acts 1:13-14 (but was this the full list of those present? No mention of Matthias!)

Also: how many feet did Jesus wash?! Did he wash his mother's feet?! Surely he washed the feet of everyone at the Supper

Anyone able to find (or make!) an image of Jesus washing women's feet at the Last Supper?!

The Last Supper by Polish artist Bohdan Piasecki

Women were at the Last Supper, too

Who attended the Last Supper?

International Day of Families

Thursday May 15

Today's Bible Blog
a 4-course menu:
- What does the name "Sam" mean?!
- pass the ball! Pass it!
- ungodly/secular values
- a commandment, not a suggestion

God bless the kind readers who check this Bible Blog each day. May this Bible Blog give us extra hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily lives

The story of Roy .... maybe someone can help please:

Late yesterday afternoon as I returned from Hei Ling Chau Drug Treatment Centre, I met a man aged about 30 who had been at HLC a year ago. His name is Roy. Before detention Roy was a fashion designer (clothes & jewelry etc). Upon release, no design job available. So he's been working for a year at an advertising company - this one - arranging advertisements to go on the sides of taxis and other vehicles. But sales are slow and his company is putting people off.

Roy's salary is about HK$8,000 a month, but his rent recently went up to HK$6,500 a month (in a two year contract that has more than a year to go) He lives with his partner who is five months pregnant and not working. If they get married they can apply for government housing (costing about HK$1,300 a month), after a wait of a year or so. But only if they get married. Not married they face a wait of many years. But before they can get married, the partner needs a divorce from her ex-husband who has a new partner, has moved to China, and has broken off contact. To sort this out they need a lawyer. But they can't afford a lawyer. I am hoping to find a pro-bono lawyer for them.

Roy said it's ok to put his story on this website, in the hope that someone might be able to help him and his partner find cheaper accommodation (even for one year) ....and someone might be able to help him find a better job. He's not lazy. He's quite hard-working. But like many other people in HK who are being slugged by increased rents he is entering waters of great difficulty. If any kind readers are able to help Roy he can be contacted by phone at (852) 95488804 and email: roybibi@me.com

Jesus, please help Roy!

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	United States of Secrets The spellbinding inside story of the U.S. government's massive secret surveillance program - FrontLine Video documentary India: Will Modi be haunted by his past?

	Vietnamese workers torch foreign factories over Chinese sea claims

	Now in bookstores: Jimmy Carter: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power

	Whose rule book is Abbott playing from?

Pope Francis Full text Summary	164. In catechesis too, we have rediscovered the fundamental role of the first announcement or kerygma, which needs to be the centre of all evangelizing activity and all efforts at Church renewal. The kerygma is Trinitarian. The fire of the Spirit is given in the form of tongues and leads us to believe in Jesus Christ who, by his death and resurrection, reveals and communicates to us the Father’s infinite mercy. On the lips of the catechist the first proclamation must ring out over and over: “Jesus Christ loves you; he gave his life to save you; and now he is living at your side every day to enlighten, strengthen and free you.” This first proclamation is called “first” not because it exists at the beginning and can then be forgotten or replaced by other more important things. It is first in a qualitative sense because it is the principal proclamation, the one which we must hear again and again in different ways, the one which we must announce one way or another throughout the process of catechesis, at every level and moment. For this reason too, “the priest – like every other member of the Church – ought to grow in awareness that he himself is continually in need of being evangelized”

	Judge: "I shall have to give you ten days or $20." Prisoner: "I'll take the $20, Judge!"

	This website's Tanzania File (stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's South America file (stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK) - letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons This website's Hong Kong file (encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)


John W mini-Blog	Mine disaster in Turkey: Jesus, have mercy on the dead.... may the trapped be rescued..... may the injured be healed....and may greedy owners be stopped from causing tragedies like this! Pope Francis: Pray for victims of Turkish mining disaster

Sun: Africa Mon: Europe & Russia Tues: South Asia Wed: East Asia Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid: South America Sat: Central & North America Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week: Jesus, today, Thursday, please bless the people of South East Asia & the Pacific On this 15th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Liaoning Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

Without meaning to encourage gambling:

According to old tradition, St. Matthias's Day (today)
is said to be a lucky day because Matthias was chosen by lot to replace Judas Iscariot. It has therefore been seen as a good day for buying lottery tickets etc !

Wednesday May 14 Feast of Saint Matthias

Bible Readings for Mass of St Matthias

Matthias must have been disappointed when he was not chosen in the original 12 apostles. But he didn't go away in a huff. He kept on following Jesus, eventually taking Judas' place

Chris McDonnell
(Wed UK blogger)

Tell me about it!

We need a lot more of that love and less of the charge that heresy lurks round the corner. A life in faith is, in the end, about courageous risk-taking and trust in the goodness of the Lord. That was what Thomas showed in his words of gratitude
“You are my Lord and my God”

Vatican II - Renewal (2)

Hans Küng:
Letter to bishops

Revolution to stop authoritarianism

Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings on Vat II

Robert Mickens:
Vatican Implosion

Nicholas Lash: Vatican II:
Of Happy Memory - and Hope?

Robert McNally:
Crisis & Criticism in the Church

Priests 9 Masses a day
- need to ordain married men

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Link between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse

Why are women not being
ordained to priesthood? (updated)

This website's
Reflections on the 16 documents
of Vatican II

Glaciers melting 'at unstoppable pace'

Glenn Greenwald- the explosive day we revealed Edward Snowden's identity to the world - a gripping story....what happened when Snowden was in HK ...the two lawyers were Robert Tibbo and Jonathan Man whom I have met re work for refugees. Robert has several times featured on this website. We are often in contact re refugees. c.f. Snowden's Canadian lawyer
and Robert Tibbo reveals he worked closely with Snowden

Vatican threatens Jesuit theologian in India with censure

Wole Soyinka- Nigeria needs new leaders

Budget 2014: Axe falls on foreign aid spending

A Budget to enshrine inequality

Why Croke Park and Old Trafford ((& the MCG)) are the new cathedrals - Brendan Hoban - sport replacing religion

Meeting of Pope and Patriarch will highlight Christianity in Turkey
(excellent update of disturbing situation in Turkey) - John Allen

Senior bishop calls for Church to listen to calls for Communion for divorcees and married clergy

Pope Francis

Full text

Summary

163. Education and catechesis are at the service of this growth. We already possess a number of magisterial documents and aids on catechesis issued by the Holy See and by various episcopates.

I think in particular of the Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae (1979), the General Catechetical Directory (1997) and other documents whose contents need not be repeated here. I would like to offer a few brief considerations which I believe to be of particular significance.

((Interesting: no mention of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which tried to reverse much of the teaching of Vatican II - c.f. CCC = V2 ?))

Pope Francis offers baptism to Martians, says everyone has right to be baptised !

Yesterday at the custodial section of a local hospital, there was a Tanzanian man arrested at HK airport about May 10 for drug trafficking (drugs in his stomach). The Drug Lords are keeping up their campaign. So must this website keep up its campaign.

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

John W mini-Blog

Can't give details, for strategic reasons, but yesterday my little centre in Jordan was visited by a group which included two former Superior Generals of women's congregations!

On this 14th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Jilin
Please join me in praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month

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